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April 19, 2017 @ 7:30 pm

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Prince Seretse Khama of Bechuanaland (now Botswana) causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s.

It’s a tale of star-crossed lovers with the bigoted British government playing a particularly shabby hand, a story of imperialism, bullying, and Westminster functionaries passing off their taboo horror of interracial marrying as a matter of realism and political expediency.